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lightener

American  
[lahyt-uhn-er] / ˈlaɪt ən ər /

noun

plural

lighteners
  1. a substance used to lighten the color of something, especially skin or hair.


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The contrast of the fancy dress and orange flotation devices was a mood lightener in what could have been a heavy atmosphere.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Hartman also warns about glutathione, an antioxidant that is sold as an oral supplement and in injectable form as a skin lightener.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022

My downfall came in the form of two boxes of hair lightener, the kind of hard bleach used to scour crude oil off cruise ships.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2015

And I swear to you on the tub of Sun-In hair lightener into which I dunk my increasingly bushy head each morning: I will achieve a kale-only diet.

From Slate • May 8, 2012

He saw himself as the light of his home, bringer of brightness, lightener of dull hours.

From Miss Lulu Bett by Gale, Zona

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